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Help compose the CE Song. Suggest lyrics!

Ashraf HZ

@Ash • Oct 22, 2024

Oct 22, 2024

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No, get that "twinkle twinkle little star" tune out of your head. The CE song is serious business! 😉

So, whats the deal with this? The CE Song will be about something engineering. At the moment, the theme is:

the engineer, and his/her contributions to the world.
We first need lyrics from you CEans! It's up to you whether you want to write out the whole song, a stanza (a paragraph of it), or just a line. Every little bit helps 😀 Try to stick to the theme.

Get those creative juices flowing. Its also a good avenue to try out your poetry skills 😉 Be proud to be an engineer, CEans!

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gohm

@gohm-F3UUpP • Apr 11, 2008

what's a pharoah without a pyramid,
What's a Paris without an Eiffel,
what's a civilized world,
without an engineer.

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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Apr 11, 2008

gohmwhat's a pharoah without a pyramid,
What's a Paris without an Eiffel,
what's a civilized world,
without an engineer.
way to go!

[tunes his guitar in E] :twisted:

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Ashraf HZ

@Ash • Apr 12, 2008

Nice one gohm! 😀

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gohm

@gohm-F3UUpP • Apr 15, 2008

that could be the chorus, who's got the first verse?

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raj87verma88

@raj87verma88-ZpL2Wn • Apr 17, 2008

Heres an option,
Like a hot summer day without a chilled beer
When you feel miserable and have no cheer
Becomes true your worst fear
Nothing interesting all the year
My friends lend me your ear
Such will be life without an engineer
😁

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Ashraf HZ

@Ash • Apr 17, 2008

Nice one bro 😉 But, can we change beer to root beer? 😛

I have a feeling the song title will be "Without an Engineer".

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raj87verma88

@raj87verma88-ZpL2Wn • Apr 18, 2008

Like a hot summer day without chilled root beer..hmmmm...doesn't sound intoxicating enough does it😉.
Thanks for the constructive criticism😛
I'll try and come up with more ideas.

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raj87verma88

@raj87verma88-ZpL2Wn • Apr 18, 2008

Here Ash, how about this one,
We can do much with all our tools
Oh! We all are so mighty cool
The world is our personal pool
Be it college or in school
Our inventions makes others drool
And makes them feel like a bunch of fools

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MaRo

@maro-Ce3knx • Apr 18, 2008

I don't know about lyrics, but can deal with the music issue 😉

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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Apr 18, 2008

raj87verma88Here Ash, how about this one,
We can do much with all our tools
Oh! We all are so mighty cool
The world is our personal pool
Be it college or in school
Our inventions makes others drool
And makes them feel like a bunch of fools
Boy! You've the talent.

The last line, however, hmm 😒.

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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Apr 18, 2008

MaRoI don't know about lyrics, but can deal with the music issue 😉
Hey that will be great. MaRo, if I'm not wrong, you're in touch with Egypt's leading singer, Moustafa Amar, right? 😀

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Ashraf HZ

@Ash • Apr 18, 2008

wow, lots of good lyrics coming!
I'll think of some too, soon 😀 How many verses do we need in total, btw? 4?

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gohm

@gohm-F3UUpP • Apr 18, 2008

yeah, about 4 depending on how long the verses are and how long the song will be.

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raj87verma88

@raj87verma88-ZpL2Wn • Apr 18, 2008

The_Big_KBoy! You've the talent.

The last line, however, hmm 😒.
Thanks! Well how about the last line as
We are a bunch of Rational Fools

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MaRo

@maro-Ce3knx • Apr 18, 2008

The_Big_KHey that will be great. MaRo, if I'm not wrong, you're in touch with Egypt's leading singer, Moustafa Amar, right? 😀
Yeah, I know him personally 😀

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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Apr 18, 2008

MaRoYeah, I know him personally 😀
I heard few of his songs on YouTube! He's a great singer!

@Raj: Rational fools 😁! Long way to go! If time (& my creativity) permits, I'll try to come up with a tune.

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Ashraf HZ

@Ash • Apr 21, 2008

Maybe this will inspire us? From the same guys who did Engineer's guide to cats:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLoUXED09WM" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Engineer Poetry - YouTube</a>

Its very short, but I like that kinda tune. I can imagine Big K plucking or strumming in the background 😉 "Kicking specific gravity!" lol

For those who play or know Team Fortress 2, you've probably come across this clip already:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i68cEsALWt0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">- YouTube</a>

Classic! I remember always playing as the Engineer in TF1 😉 Need to save up some cash to get the Orange Box now.

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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Apr 21, 2008

Will surely have a look at that. I'm on 144kbps wi/fi now 😔 , youtube takes forever to load. Duh!

I noticed a profile here on CE that says "playing harmonica" in hobbies section. Who plays harmonica?

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Ashraf HZ

@Ash • Apr 21, 2008

The_Big_KI'm on 144kbps wi/fi now 😔 , youtube takes forever to load. Duh!
There were times when I tried downloading hundreds of megabytes of data on a 28.8kbps connection.. good old days!

I think I saw a youtube vid of someone beatboxing with a harmonica. Sounded cool 😉

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Ashraf HZ

@Ash • Jul 25, 2008

*bumps*
Anyone with new ideas? I think we have enough lyrics already to do a short song 😛

Start tuning your guitars and keyboards!

Btw.. is there are good free software in which I can compose songs? Where I could electronically generate instrument sounds. Its cheating, I know 😛

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gohm

@gohm-F3UUpP • Jul 26, 2008

Mac has garageband

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raj87verma88

@raj87verma88-ZpL2Wn • Jul 26, 2008

My Linux has a lot of music composing softwares and DJ console like software to mix music.

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Ashraf HZ

@Ash • Jul 26, 2008

raj87verma88My Linux has a lot of music composing softwares and DJ console like software to mix music.
haha, looks like you are settling down well with Ubuntu 😛

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sauravgoswami

@sauravgoswami-UAfTlI • Jul 26, 2008

Hey why dont we have a music composed of engineering tools and machines,like tinkering of nails,sound of hammer,something like that which we can embedd with normal music.

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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Jul 26, 2008

sauravgoswamiHey why dont we have a music composed of engineering tools and machines,like tinkering of nails,sound of hammer,something like that which we can embedd with normal music.
Wow ! In fact I had the same idea when we started this thread 😁! It would be JUST AMAZING ! 😁

For recording the songs - I recommend Audacity !

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gohm

@gohm-F3UUpP • Jul 26, 2008

That my friends is called Industrial music, popular in Germany.

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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Jul 26, 2008

Haha 😀 That's so nice. I can already imagine CE Song being played at our first CE World Meet 😁

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raj87verma88

@raj87verma88-ZpL2Wn • Jul 26, 2008

The_Big_KHaha 😀 That's so nice. I can already imagine CE Song being played at our first CE World Meet 😁
We can get some pole dancers too 😛

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sauravgoswami

@sauravgoswami-UAfTlI • Jul 27, 2008

mmm tats will be very interesting,are we going held the meet in some pub or secret location!!!

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yudi

@yudi-9hjHvc • Jul 28, 2008

this one goes like this, let me know how it is

anywhere on the globe you can be
one thing you'll be able to see
who made all that good stuff
Logon & see at CE.

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sauravgoswami

@sauravgoswami-UAfTlI • Jul 29, 2008

tat are cool lines....why dont we have all engineering trades mention in it!!!

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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Jul 29, 2008

sauravgoswamitat are cool lines....why dont we have all engineering trades mention in it!!!
I'm game for the idea. The good thing about engineering trades is that they Rhyme 😁

Electrical , Mechanical , Structural ...

[Civil 😒 , Computer, Electronics 😒 - ah, let's exclude the ones which don't fit 😛 ]

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gohm

@gohm-F3UUpP • Aug 3, 2008

Just add "cal" to the end of them-
civilcal, computercal... 😀

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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Aug 3, 2008

gohmJust add "cal" to the end of them-
civilcal, computercal... 😀
lol ! Electronical Engineer!

Marinal, Marinical engineer 😒

We've not had much progress on the lyrics so far. Come on people!

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sauravgoswami

@sauravgoswami-UAfTlI • Aug 3, 2008

ha ha ha,hey we can rhyme with word not necessary with civil,electronics etc...

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Harshad Italiya

@harshad-ukH5ww • Sep 6, 2008

cool lyrics there biggie select one and give ur guitar music to it

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raj87verma88

@raj87verma88-ZpL2Wn • Dec 25, 2008

Okay we had some ideas from Gohm and Yudi. Using those lines for the chorus and my own poem I have thus completed the CE song. Here it is..😁

Like a hot summer day without a chilled beer
When you feel miserable and have no cheer
Becomes true your worst fear
Nothing interesting all the year
My friends lend me your ear
Such will be life without an engineer

Chorus
what's a pharaoh without a pyramid,
What's Paris without the Eiffel,
what's a civilized world,
without an engineer.

We can do much with all our tools
Oh! We all are so mighty cool
The world is our personal pool
Be it college or in school
Our inventions makes others drool
We are a bunch of Rational Fools

Chorus
what's a pharaoh without a pyramid,
What's Paris without the Eiffel,
what's a civilized world,
without an engineer.

Engineers both young and old
their heads high and standing bold
superior brains and heart of gold
answers to problems in the brain's fold
such a lot you will find I am told
at CE and it ain't cold

Chorus
anywhere on the globe you can be
one thing you'll be able to see
who made all that good stuff
Log on & see at CE.

Gears and engine from mechanical
circuits systems are electrical
trusses and cantilevers by the structural
civil, computer though without 'cal'
but believe me they're quite technical
and at CE they have their cubical

Chorus
anywhere on the globe you can be
one thing you'll be able to see
who made all that good stuff
Log on & see at CE

Questions fill our mind a lot
we search for answers deep in thought
but unawares we are never caught
be it a wrench or the CE Bot
We enjoy our life a lot
Hell, Yeah, we are Hot

Chorus
Making a messenger or a robotic arm
or contests that are quite cool
Know your CEan are quite a charm
CE makes an engineer drool.

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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Dec 25, 2008

boy o boy!

I'll grab my guitar and try do get something done. Gohm, Kinetic_Joules - we need you! Get your guitars and join in ! 😁

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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Dec 25, 2008

By the way, we've grown bigger in numbers. I bet we have lot of talented people on CE. Jump in fellas! We seriously need you!

@Patty -> Great work! 😁

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Ashraf HZ

@Ash • Dec 25, 2008

Frakking awesome Patty! You darn well put a heck of an effort on that, impressive 😀

One tiny gripe though. I'm quite against "beer"... *grin* Can it be changed somehow? Pretty please? 😀

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raj87verma88

@raj87verma88-ZpL2Wn • Dec 25, 2008

Thanks a lot guys. This was my first attempt at writing poetry and I think it came out OK.

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shalini_goel14

@shalini-goel14-ASmC2J • Dec 25, 2008

raj87verma88Okay we had some ideas from Gohm and Yudi. Using those lines for the chorus and my own poem I have thus completed the CE song. Here it is..😁

Like a hot summer day without a chilled beer
When you feel miserable and have no cheer
Becomes true your worst fear
Nothing interesting all the year
My friends lend me your ear
Such will be life without an engineer

Chorus
what's a pharaoh without a pyramid,
What's Paris without the Eiffel,
what's a civilized world,
without an engineer.

We can do much with all our tools
Oh! We all are so mighty cool
The world is our personal pool
Be it college or in school
Our inventions makes others drool
We are a bunch of Rational Fools

Chorus
what's a pharaoh without a pyramid,
What's Paris without the Eiffel,
what's a civilized world,
without an engineer.

Engineers both young and old
their heads high and standing bold
superior brains and heart of gold
answers to problems in the brain's fold
such a lot you will find I am told
at CE and it ain't cold

Chorus
anywhere on the globe you can be
one thing you'll be able to see
who made all that good stuff
Log on & see at CE.

Gears and engine from mechanical
circuits systems are electrical
trusses and cantilevers by the structural
civil, computer though without 'cal'
but believe me they're quite technical
and at CE they have their cubical

Chorus
anywhere on the globe you can be
one thing you'll be able to see
who made all that good stuff
Log on & see at CE

Questions fill our mind a lot
we search for answers deep in thought
but unawares we are never caught
be it a wrench or the CE Bot
We enjoy our life a lot
Hell, Yeah, we are Hot

Chorus
Making a messenger or a robotic arm
or contests that are quite cool
Know your CEan are quite a charm
CE makes an engineer drool.
Hey raj87verma88 ! Good work done yaar 😀

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raj87verma88

@raj87verma88-ZpL2Wn • Dec 26, 2008

Thanks a lot Shalini.

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shalini_goel14

@shalini-goel14-ASmC2J • Dec 26, 2008

Welcome 😀 !!

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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Dec 30, 2008

ashFrakking awesome Patty! You darn well put a heck of an effort on that, impressive 😀

One tiny gripe though. I'm quite against "beer"... *grin* Can it be changed somehow? Pretty please? 😀
Me too. Put something like 'Gear'. 😲

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Ashraf HZ

@Ash • Mar 8, 2009

While composing the drum beats, I just realized we haven't decided on the genre of the song 😛 Rock? Pop? Techno? Funk? Hip Hop?

The last time I help composed a song was back in high school, and we never really had a structure to follow (usually its just playing random things until we stuck on something we liked). I hope you guys know better (especially Gohm and Biggie)! I'm thinking we could use the following terms:

Intro
Bridge
Verse
Chorus
Riff

Then organize them in a structure we want.

[EDIT]
I suggest we create a place to host our music output files. How about creating a new Google Site on the CE network domain? At least the files will be centralized. We could call it CE Studios (which Biggie used before), for all our media efforts.

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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Mar 8, 2009

I doubt if the 'structured' approach will work 😉 . Maybe we'll find hidden musical genius among our team?

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Ashraf HZ

@Ash • Mar 8, 2009

The_Big_KI doubt if the 'structured' approach will work 😉 . Maybe we'll find hidden musical genius among our team?
I think some sort of structure will help in composing the music? Like, the drum patterns will depend on the part of the song (eg bridge, verse or riff) 😛 I certainly don't want to have the same beat throughout! Likewise with the chords you'd want to use for your guitar.

Suggestion for a genre? If I had my way, I'd do techno/rap.. so you guys better suggest something more appropriate 😉

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Saandeep Sreerambatla

@saandeep-sreerambatla-hWHU1M • Mar 8, 2009

The lyrics are good patty.
😎😎

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Ashraf HZ

@Ash • Mar 17, 2009

*bump*

I wish I had a real drum kit to work on. Creating beats with software feels damn unnatural 😛

So.. what type of song are we aiming for? Pop rock or something?

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